I can screencap it later, but I use the characters from the 8-bit episode of the TV show Community as my various hard drives. Some guys on Reddit were making an unofficial version of the video game one particular season 3 episode is about, and I got then to send me jpegs of their character models. So I have Jeff as my main hard drive, Britta as my Windows partition, Troy as my second internal hard drive, etc.

I guess if you're not a fan of the show, none of that makes sense.

And old-ish screenshot that misses a few and was before I changed the labels to simply the character names:

I tried to keep the labeling kinda-sorta related to the characters. Jeff is the main character, so he's the boot drive. Britta is the Windows of people, so she's the Bootcamp partition. The Abed drive has a bunch of DVD rips of TV shows (including Community, so it's meta!). The Dean likes to pop in and out, so he's my flash drive.

Chang (the Ken Jeong one) is the HDD that came with my computer that I swapped out later for an SSD. I've got it hooked up via a USB adapter, but I haven't really figured out what to do with it. The show hasn't really figured out what to do with Jeong's character, hence... you get the point.

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Originally Posted by iacas

Yeah, no kidding! Ya gotta change the names!

I did a while ago, I just don't have enough USB plugs to hook 'em all up and take another screenshot.

I tried to keep the labeling kinda-sorta related to the characters. Jeff is the main character, so he's the boot drive. Britta is the Windows of people, so she's the Bootcamp partition. The Abed drive has a bunch of DVD rips of TV shows (including Community, so it's meta!). The Dean likes to pop in and out, so he's my flash drive.

Chang (the Ken Jeong one) is the HDD that came with my computer that I swapped out later for an SSD. I've got it hooked up via a USB adapter, but I haven't really figured out what to do with it. The show hasn't really figured out what to do with Jeong's character, hence... you get the point.
I did a while ago, I just don't have enough USB plugs to hook 'em all up and take another screenshot.

You put wayyyyyyyyy too much thought into this. It is fantastic and I love it lol.

I was in the union for 20 years, have been in management for 6 years. Unions are an excuse for an average of 50% of the work force to be slackers.
Union members have a gang mentality, I know because I was in it for so long....

Top Chef's Padma Lakshmi was harassed pretty badly from these stories. Reminded me of this thread.

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Angry that the show had not signed a Teamsters contract and that the production hired local PA’s to drive cast and crew vehicles, the dozen or so picketers from Boston’s Teamsters Local 25 kept at it for hours, raining down racist, sexist and homophobic threats and slurs as staffers came to and left the set that summer day. Jenn Levy, Bravo’s SVP Production, wasn’t spared. Arriving at the restaurant in her black SUV, she soon found herself running a gauntlet of vitriol. “She got of her car in front of the location and quickly ran through the picket line,” a source said. “They were yelling, ‘You bitch! You ****! We’re gonna get you!’ It went on like that all day.”

John King, Milton’s Deputy Police Chief, said the Teamsters were “threatening, heckling and harassing.” The first officer on the scene, he said, had to call for back-up after the Teamsters “gave the officer trouble.” Reading from the police report, he said the Teamsters were “hostile, swearing, and refusing to let people come in and out. Officers repeatedly tried to de-escalate the situation.” When more police arrived, the Teamsters went to the show’s hospitality tent and “harassed the crew there.” When the officers went there, King said, “A group of them slashed the tires on 14 different cars owned by the crew.”

Got a new MacBook Pro (Retina). I'd originally thought I might name it "Iris," but the icon options for that word are pretty… lame.

So now I'm not sure what to name it. My desktop computer is named "Bunny" and the four hard drives are all famous rabbits (like Roger, Harvey, etc.). My previous MacBook Air is named "Brainy" and has a Brainy Smurf icon. It was my (not always enjoyed) nickname in school.

Any suggestions? Gotta have a good icon (a picture I can make into an icon is fine too).

You know, as an IT guy I use computer names that are logical and fit into the scheme of whatever environment the machine is in. The idea of using cute/fancy names for a computer so that I can have interesting icons associated with the computer name makes absolutely no sense to me.....